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Forum: Accrington Forum News 20-04-2020, 14:51
Replies: 7
Views: 8
Posted By davidf
Re: Wadington Street

Thee and me both, Taddy. I automatically wrote Waddington Street with two ds, as we'd expect it to be spelled, when there's only one upward stroke in the baptismal record I referred to, and which is...
Forum: Accrington Forum News 14-04-2020, 18:59
Replies: 7
Views: 8
Posted By davidf
Re: Wadington Street

Hi Walshie,
Perhaps I can help. your John Walter W's parents were living at 7 Washington Street in Accrington at the 1891 census, and I suggest that the writing on JWW's baptism record is what...
Forum: Lost Friends / Family 18-01-2019, 10:43
Replies: 10
Views: 11
Posted By davidf
Re: Greenhalgh

Hi Greeny, In the 1950s,and perhaps 1960s, a Greenhalgh family lived at the top of Garbett Street in Accy. I'm pretty sure that the father was called Lewis, and there were maybe two children whose...
Forum: Heritage and History 06-01-2017, 13:55
Replies: 386
Views: 31,460
Posted By davidf
Re: World War 1

Hi Retlaw, Canning Street ran between Richmond Street and Ranger Street, one up from Scaitcliffe Street.
davidf
Forum: General Chat 20-04-2016, 15:35
Replies: 31
Views: 32
Posted By davidf
Re: Disabled parking warning

It's always worth checking the board close to a pay machine, some councils which make one pay give a bonus time such as an additional half hour parking or even double the time for the same charge.
Forum: Questions and Answers 02-03-2016, 18:42
Replies: 24
Views: 25
Posted By davidf
Re: Site of Broughtons Plumbers Merchants Paradise Street

Might it help to jog people's memories if we knew the date - year at least - of this fire?
Forum: Questions and Answers 29-12-2015, 18:50
Replies: 32
Views: 33
Posted By davidf
Re: Radios

Hilversum is in Holland.
Forum: General Chat 28-11-2015, 14:26
Replies: 24
Views: 25
Posted By davidf
re: St James Church, St James Rd, Church (AKA "Church Kirk Church")

Yesterday's Daily Telegraph carried an advert inviting people to subscribe to an organization to "Help save the UK's rural churches for just £30".
Forum: Questions and Answers 02-09-2015, 18:45
Replies: 78
Views: 79
Posted By davidf
Smile Re: Should the TV License be scrapped?

I watch some German TV here in England because I bought a dongle for about £20. And when I visit Germany I take a telly with me and watch some on that.
Forum: Nostalgia aint what it used to be... 29-11-2014, 19:14
Replies: 34
Views: 35
Posted By davidf
Re: Home made carts!

I don't know if Black & Decker-type electric drills were around (or if they were, if they were affordable) in the early 1950s, whereas most people had coal fires so a hot poker was available and...
Forum: Nostalgia aint what it used to be... 28-11-2014, 19:15
Replies: 34
Views: 35
Posted By davidf
Re: Home made carts!

Those were the days, my dad would use a hot poker to make a hole in the centre, and a few inches from the back end, of a trolley's platform and we lads would bolt in a second trolley (minus the...
Forum: Heritage and History 23-10-2014, 11:14
Replies: 35
Views: 519
Posted By davidf
Smile Re: old st peters school crown street

I think that St Peter's Institute was a building mainly fronting Richmond Street, but also at the corner of Higher Antley Street. It was on the left hand side facing up Richmond Street.
Forum: Accy Photos 09-10-2014, 18:51
Replies: 18
Views: 1,602
Posted By davidf
Re: Mill Street, Accrington

On the 1851 and 1861 censuses some addresses in Baxenden/Lower Baxenden were in the Township of New Accrington.
Forum: Lost Friends / Family 26-09-2014, 20:11
Replies: 16
Views: 503
Posted By davidf
Re: Dancing at Church Con 1955/7

In 1959 I used to work with a George Hyatt. Thinking of his age at that time he may well have been the George Hyatt you mention, but because he was a few years older I only knew him at work. A nice...
Forum: Questions and Answers 27-03-2014, 13:34
Replies: 17
Views: 1,162
Posted By davidf
Re: Observer obituaries

I'm another Accy Lad who lives elsewhere, and this continually annoys me because I, too, want to browse to see if I recognise anyone from the past.
Forum: Questions and Answers 19-02-2014, 18:56
Replies: 11
Views: 550
Posted By davidf
Smile Re: Dill Hall Lane..

Hi Retlaw, Fountain Street and, I think, Garbett Street are two exceptions to the rule as they say.
Forum: Crash Computers Chat 15-01-2014, 18:31
Replies: 13
Views: 908
Posted By davidf
Re: Plusnet - Any Good?

I've been with Plusnet for a couple of years and found their customer services very good, and I have anytime phone calls included for less than £300 per annum. My problem is with broadband speed (s...
Forum: Heritage and History 10-01-2014, 18:27
Replies: 12
Views: 616
Posted By davidf
Re: accy cinema

I went there occasionally in the very early 1950s and films were shown on Saturday afternoons, I seem to remember that the admission fee was 4d whereas it was 6d in the Odeon on Saturday mornings.
Forum: Lost Friends / Family 06-12-2013, 18:30
Replies: 26
Views: 2,454
Posted By davidf
Smile Re: Old school mates of mine

I lived next door to the Pettifers in the 1950s and there were two brothers -Michael and Anthony.
Forum: Lost Friends / Family 06-12-2013, 18:24
Replies: 20
Views: 1,173
Posted By davidf
Re: Alan Dempsey 1943-2013

I'll pass this sad news on to my sister, she too knew Alan.
Forum: Heritage and History 02-12-2013, 18:20
Replies: 30
Views: 5,312
Posted By davidf
Re: Rothwell Heights

I never swam in this lodge although a group of us lads once built a raft which floated on it rather lopsidedly even with one or two of us on board. In those days, around 1954, we knew it as Shutt's...
Forum: General Chat 02-10-2013, 18:05
Replies: 52
Views: 1,701
Posted By davidf
Re: Mick in hospital

Every best wish for a speedy recovery.
davidf
Forum: Questions and Answers 16-09-2013, 19:47
Replies: 35
Views: 1,396
Posted By davidf
Re: Where is this?

What intrigues me is the tightness of the curve, it looks much too tight to be either Burnley or Accrington compared to how the viaducts and final approaches to both stations are depicted on my old...
Forum: Questions and Answers 16-09-2013, 18:52
Replies: 35
Views: 1,396
Posted By davidf
Re: Where is this?

In the book "The Archive Photographs Series - Accrington" by John Goddard is a photo showing the Manchester platform, and the date is given as 1970. A single track is there for all to see, and part...
Forum: Questions and Answers 12-09-2013, 19:27
Replies: 35
Views: 1,396
Posted By davidf
Re: Where is this?

Gremlin, can you please clarify whether it's supposed to have been taken in 1967 or 1957?
Didn't there used to be a footbridge from the Blackburn platform to the Manchester platform? It doesn't...
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